I would like to be referred to as ‘The Big Aristotle’.
SHAQUILLE O'NEALI failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up.
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The problem with kids these days is they don’t have enough fun stuff to do. When I was stationed with my family in Germany, youth basketball programs gave me something to strive to do my best at.
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Everybody is not going to like it, but I don’t care if they like or not. I’m Bush, so if they don’t like it resign.
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Every time that I’ve won a championship I’ve looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said ‘You know what, I’m going to win it this year. I feel that way now.
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I’m still here. I’m a force to be reckoned with… you have to come take my spot, and not through Twitter and not through the media, come take my spot.
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Get his master’s in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around.
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You know, I’m very photogenic.
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And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
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(The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can’t stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.
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But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.
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Once you learn how to do something, you don’t lose it. Unless you die.
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I’m a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.
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The stats win nothing. I’m still sexy. I’m still great.
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Why don’t you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I’m stronger).
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You guys make the rules up, so a foul is a foul. It doesn’t matter if a guy is bigger and stronger. It’s not my fault I ate my Frosted Flakes when I was little, and you ate Wheaties.
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Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain’t nothing but a sandwich.
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